There was never any oversight intended for funding, because OSD and Treasury decided NOT to allow JIEDDO to have it’s own account. Instead it went by way of an unfortunately circuitous Army funding route. There were several valid operational and a few political reasons for that decision.

The failure to transition initiatives to POR was due directly to the lack of internal coordination and agreement with the various wonks-in-charge (WIC) of the assorted functional divisions. Not one WIC wanted to hear the words “transition planning” because the concept belonged in the too-hard-to-do box, and smelled of stability and continuity – not chaos, the breeding ground of the ambitious.